I love a musical collaboration and this one is about as out-there as you could ever imagine – Jamaican roots reggae and Polish folk music.

Since the early Nineties reggae legends The Twinkle Brothers have been fusing their reggae with the traditional music of a Polish group called Trebunie Tutki.

Perhaps surprisingly, the fusion works well.

Trebunie’s highlander music – “goral music” – comes from the Podhale region in the Tatra Mountains in the south of the country, near the borders with Slovakia and Czechia, with its own ethnic population, customs, dialect – and music.

They have released many records but their most successful is the 2008 Twinkle Brothers collaboration Pieśni Chwały (Songs of Glory), which went gold in Poland, introducing many music fans there to reggae for the first time – and reggae fans to the violins, flutes, wooden horns and bagpipes of Polish highlander music.

The collaboration began when a Polish radio journalist, Wlodzimierz Kleszcz, brought them together in the early Nineties.

A fan of “world music,” he had a dream of fusing traditional Polish highlander music with reggae which led to the Twinkle Brothers – still led today by founder member Norman Grant – travelling to Poland from London, where they now live.

Instantly hitting it off with the group led by violinist Wladyslaw Trebunie-Tutki, they went into the studio together to record an album called Higher Heights, released in 1994.

Trebenie Tutki formed back in the Sixties at around the same time as brothers Norman and Ralson Grant were starting The Twinkle Brothers in Jamaica, and has an ever-evolving cast of members, now including Wladyslaw’s son Krzysztof and daughter Anna.